Winter Training

I’m well into my winter training now. After Florida I had a big break, around 5-6 weeks and I’ve got to tell you I lost absolutely loads of fitness. It’s actually quite amazing how much effort you have to put in to get fit and then you take a few weeks off and it’s all gone and you feel as though you are going backwards. In previous years I’ve only taken around 2 weeks off and that felt like long…

On Wednesday the 9th October I set off from England to head to America for 4 weeks. I spent 3 weeks in California training mostly although I did try to race once but the less that’s said of that the better. And then the following week would be spent in Panama City Beach Florida for the grand finale of my trip Ironman Florida.     I was staying with Cathy Holl who’s an absolute legend. Her and her husband Steve…

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I was going to do a serious of race reports for this blog post, letting you know how the races have gone since the Ironman, such as the Castle Series Olympic at Chantilly Castle, and the Gerardmer XL Triathlon. However I’ve decided to vent my frustrations in this blog, since the Ironman I feel like I’ve had the worst luck ever. It’s like I’ve got a demon on my shoulder. First of all at the Castle Series Olympic Distance race…

June and July part 2

Lowestoft training camp: Last year I did two domestic training camps with a few friends, the first was a Wales training camp at Paul Hawkins house in Chirk with Dan Mc Parland as well for company and the second was in Lowestoft at my house with Paul Hawkins and Rob Brundish. These camps are really good fun and very cheap to do, I just really like it as you get some great training in with your mates which is fantastic….